"sex chromosome" meaning in English

See sex chromosome in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: sex chromosomes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} sex chromosome (plural sex chromosomes)
  1. (genetics) either of a pair of chromosomes (in most animals and plants) whose combination determines the sexual characteristics of an individual. Categories (topical): Genetics Related terms: X-chromosome, Y-chromosome, gamete
    Sense id: en-sex_chromosome-en-noun-TlQRwJ2y Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry Topics: biology, genetics, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences

Inflected forms

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "autosome"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sex chromosomes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sex chromosome (plural sex chromosomes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Genetics",
          "orig": "en:Genetics",
          "parents": [
            "Biology",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "either of a pair of chromosomes (in most animals and plants) whose combination determines the sexual characteristics of an individual."
      ],
      "id": "en-sex_chromosome-en-noun-TlQRwJ2y",
      "links": [
        [
          "genetics",
          "genetics"
        ],
        [
          "pair",
          "pair"
        ],
        [
          "animal",
          "animal"
        ],
        [
          "plant",
          "plant"
        ],
        [
          "combination",
          "combination"
        ],
        [
          "sexual",
          "sexual"
        ],
        [
          "characteristic",
          "characteristic"
        ],
        [
          "individual",
          "individual"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(genetics) either of a pair of chromosomes (in most animals and plants) whose combination determines the sexual characteristics of an individual."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "X-chromosome"
        },
        {
          "word": "Y-chromosome"
        },
        {
          "word": "gamete"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "genetics",
        "medicine",
        "natural-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sex chromosome"
}
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "autosome"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sex chromosomes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sex chromosome (plural sex chromosomes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "X-chromosome"
    },
    {
      "word": "Y-chromosome"
    },
    {
      "word": "gamete"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "en:Genetics"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "either of a pair of chromosomes (in most animals and plants) whose combination determines the sexual characteristics of an individual."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "genetics",
          "genetics"
        ],
        [
          "pair",
          "pair"
        ],
        [
          "animal",
          "animal"
        ],
        [
          "plant",
          "plant"
        ],
        [
          "combination",
          "combination"
        ],
        [
          "sexual",
          "sexual"
        ],
        [
          "characteristic",
          "characteristic"
        ],
        [
          "individual",
          "individual"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(genetics) either of a pair of chromosomes (in most animals and plants) whose combination determines the sexual characteristics of an individual."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "genetics",
        "medicine",
        "natural-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sex chromosome"
}

Download raw JSONL data for sex chromosome meaning in English (1.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-09-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-08-20 using wiktextract (8e41825 and f99c758). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.